"tom" wrote in message
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Hai! Those halibut are really something --- stories abound of guys
under-estimating their strength, hauling them into a small rowboat only to
have them smash the hull by slamming around and then they swim away,
leaving the fisherman in the water amidst the wreckage of what used to be
a rowboat. Yeah, they're solid muscle --- if I get one (big if) it'll a
little guy.

Salmon gear is more complicated than simple bottom-fish jigging gear, so I
think if I catch anything, it will be snapper, rock cod, maybe halibut, or
bivalves because I won't have room for fancy gear.

I was just reading the Health Canada website and they have a blanket
recommendation to freeze everything. I obviously won't be able to do
that. OK, I will try to minimize my exposure to parasites by avoiding
salmon, and only using healthy-looking snapper/rock cod/geoduck-foot as
sashimi, the rest I will either bake wrapped in kelp, buried in sand under
a fire on the beach, or cooked the First nations way on spreader-sticks
over a fire.

Last trip I ate a bunch of mussels, here's a pic:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomfromv...62149196161634



To be honest I had no idea that you could eat mussels in raw form. I always
steam them.
Just wondering if the V.I. area has Uni. I guess even if they were there
youl;d have to check
the regulations and all.
M